I find it interesting (and a bit mystifying) that everyone describes the solar path in terms of the right hand, whereas when you actually look at the Tree of Life, it is in Tiphereth on the Middle Pillar.
Also, in Rev. 22:16 Jesus describes himself as the Morning Star — hearkening back to the “fallen one”, Lucifer, from Isaiah 14:12 — suggesting that back then people saw the Snake as more Middle Pillar rather than LHP (the Snake and Sun have historically gone together).
Anyway, the Old and New Testaments are actually Kabbalistic, but apparently almost no one is aware of this. Jesus identifies with the Bronze Snake from Numbers 21, the three Crosses with Jesus flanked by two thieves represents the three pillars, etc etc etc. It has changed the whole way I read the Bible.
Tropes and motifs from the pagan world are peppered all throughout the Gospels, including Homer and especially Dionysus (e.g. Jesus turning water into wine). Persian influence is there with the Birth narrative and Three Wise Men, and stuff I have no time to relate.
Once you understand Scripture from this standpoint and familiarise yourself with both the 1st c. Jewish Messianic sects like the Ebionites and the early gnostic sects you start to realize the teaching regarding Jesus’ divinity from before birth has no grounding in the text, and that this idea was imposed subsequently (beginning around the mid to latter half of the 2nd c.) by the Church Fathers and then finally by the Niceno-Constantinopolitan councils (325/381 CE) under Constantine.